She wished there was some place where she could go to hum it out loud. Some kind of music was too private to sing in a house cram fall of people. It was funny, too, how lonesome a person could be in a crowded house.
CARSON MCCULLERSThe human heart is a lonely hunter-but the search for us southerners is more anguished.
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A seed grows in writing as in nature. The seed of the idea is developed by both labor and the unconscious, and the struggle that goes on between them.
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The curt truth is that, in a deep secret way, the state of being beloved is intolerable to many.
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The Heart is a Lonely Hunter had such an illumination, beginning my long search for the truth of the story and flashing light into the long two years ahead.
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The human heart is a lonely hunter-but the search for us southerners is more anguished.
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It was better to be in a jail where you could bang the walls than in a jail you could not see.
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I live with the people I create and it has always made my essential loneliness less keen.
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Death is the great gamer with a sleeve of tricks.
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We are homesick most for the places we have never known.
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Resentment is the most precious flower of poverty.
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If you look around, at times the value may seem to be little or nothing at all. Often after you have sweated and tried and things are not better for you, there comes a feeling deep down in the soul that you are not worth much.
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For in a swift radiance of illumination he saw a glimpse of human struggle and valor. Of the endless fluid passage of the humanity through endless time. And of those who labor and of those who – one word- love. His soul expanded. But for a moment only. For in him, he felt a warning, a shaft of terror.
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I must go home periodically to renew my sense of horror.
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I think we look for the differences in people because it makes us less lonely.
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Love is the main generator of all good writing… Love, passion, compassion, are all welded together.
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Love is a joint experience between two persons — but the fact that it is a joint experience does not mean that it is a similar experience to the two people involved.
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